LGBT Youth North West putting LGBT Youth on the Agenda.

LGBT Youth North West is a regional organisation supporting LGBT young people and LGBT Youth organisations in the North West of England. We are made up of existing LGBT Youth Groups across the region covering Greater Manchester, Greater Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire and Cumbria. We run Lesbian and Gay Youth Manchester, Trans youth services, training to both practitioners and young people on LGBT awareness and support, peer mentoring and the LGBT Youth College

Why the community needs this charity

We help save lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans young people through our services, advocacy and support. We give people a safe space to come to where they can be themselves and escape homo/bi/trans-phobia. We provide volunteering and leadership opportunities e.g. young people trained to help other young people learn or get support. We train young and older people in LGBT awareness so that they can help friends or family who are LGBT and they can celebrate diversity.

Results and outcomes

Some young people we work with get bullied. We help them gain assertiveness to challenge the bullying or challenge their schools so that the bullying stops. We help people develop their life skills so they can negotiate life better including accredited cooking courses and youth work courses. We help young people find safe spaces to live, work and learn, sometimes escaping from homophobic families and communities. Young people we work with now have a greater chance of success in life!

Latest activities and projects

Peer Mentoring

Peer mentors are trained to do 1-2-1 listening and support sessions. These might take place at a youth club, or in a neutral place like a coffee shop. The menteee talks through what their problems are and the mentor listens and helps the mentee work out the best ways forward read more

LGBT Youth Sessions

We run tuesday and saturday sessions of cooking, arts and crafts, issue based sessions e.g. stopping smoking. In these sessions we have 1-2-1 support for those being bullied or having problems in their lives. read more